Tell you something good

This is going to be a long one, so if you're short on time come back later
Ok, lets start of with:

Other

-For one, I don't know how I missed a week. I guess it's just been busy this past week and it all bled together. Anyway, I'm going to start presently and move backwards, as to set it up for a credit roll. hrm... that was funnier before I typed it. alas. So Yesterday was a killer. I woke up and did a few chores and a little reading (I will explain what I'm reading later). The second half of the day was dedicated to climbing down a mountain, hiking a riverbed, crawling around in a cave (Which is a lot harder than you'd think) and then reversing the process. After that, I spent about 45 minutes wrestling a coworkers son, and another 30 minutes shooting some clay pigeons. This was all topped off with an hour long hay ride and some bonfire time. All-in-all, a good October 30th was had.

-This week at work was very exhaustive, but I managed to stick very close to my temporary mantra of "No Fussin'" and, honestly, it has made me feel a lot better. So my advice to everyone is to not complain. Your life is either not THAT bad, or it is, and you probably can't do anything to fix it, so you might as well go along for the ride in either case.

-The reading I've been doing is The Dresden Files. A series of 12 books buy Jim Butcher about resident to Chicago and Wizard: Detective Harry Dresden. Throughout the course of the books (I'm on the 3rd one now) He tries to solve some kind of dilemma that is usually plaguing him when the book starts, if not, then very soon after. They are most excellent so far, as I am not much of a reader (unless I can find something to catch my attention) and I would recommend them to everyone. The first book is Storm Front. I am very against spoilers, so I'm not going to go over anything in the book and just encourage you to read it yourself.

-Haunted house! Last weekend, we went to the local haunted house and paid our 5 bucks to get in. The strobe lights were so disorienting I was pretty much to distracted to be scared by any of the surprises lurking behind sheets and covers. The Lady on my arm all night, however is a different story. Every time someone/something would jump out she would shriek and clench my arm. I was pretty sure it was going to fall off. At one point she even threw me at the monster (thanks sweetie). Survival instincts I guess. It was well done and I'm glad I went.

-New desk for my computer. for the past three months my computer desk has consisted of some boxes left over from unpacking on the floor. Leaving me very sore after any prolonged usage of my computer, but I am now happily typing away atop my self-assembled desk, also borrowing one of the dining room chairs, sshhhh.

Call of Duty

I haven't really gotten to play all that much this week, with the work and the reading and the being very very tired. If I had to come up with something, then I would pick when I was playing Domination on Vacant. My team had just captured point 'B', leaving the enemy only 'A', as we already owned 'C'. 'C' is the one in the back with two ways in. I was using a Barret / Spas-12 with Lightweight/Marathon/Sitrep. I was watching one door, the on least guarded and picked off three would-be assailants of my precious 'C' point. I switched to my Spas and ran to the door to find a fourth coming through it. Fortunately, his bad aim was weak against my shotty. "We are losing 'C'!" the computer exclaimed. but that was right behind me. As I turned, I could see some dim-witted terrorist spinning around and idly staring at the ceiling. He must have thought he was pretty slick. I proved him other wise with my knife. As I saved 'C', I noticed that my teammates had somehow let 'B' fall into the grasp of our enemy, resulting in a spawning patter that would leave me surely to die. I dropped my predator missile, but to no avail, as half of the map is inside a building. As the enemy rush the now virtually undefended 'C' point, I fell to the floor and held my grenade. At least they would take it without a fight. As I recall, my team still lost, due to their desire to play TDM instead of domination, but it was still fun.

Food

-So.... many.... cookies. Between bake sales cold and boredom, the house was filled with the smell of treats, nearly the entire week. The ones I feel are most qualified for speaking about are the Lady's Ginger Snaps. I thought I would sure die and go to heaven right there on the spot. She was a little nervous because the recipe called for Molasses, but I told her her honey would do just fine and I was right.... Ok, she knew it would anyway, but still. I did convince her to add a little chili powder to one batch to zest them up a little over the top and she reluctantly agreed. I thought they were delicious, but she said she couldn't notice.

-We finished off the gift card to cracker barrel and got a little candy afterward as well. And this week's meals included Sheppard's Pie and Chicken Parmesan.
-The Sheppard's Pie is pretty easy, the key is to make sure you use the right amount of meat (I generally prefer a bit more than most people: O-blood and all.) and to have kick-ass mashed potatoes (which I do).
-The Chicken Parmesan was all the Lady's doing. I cut the chicken and then let her to it. She used the Kraft special Parmesan and whole wheat noodles and topped it with some more of the home-made sauce we had in the freezer. The end result was delicious, as her food always is.

-The aforementioned co-worker had some amazing chili when we went to her house. I should have taken her up on her offer to take some home, but I was too tired to eat, let alone think about taking some home by the end of the night.

Pathfinder


This week's session (well, last week's since there wasn't one due to the Halloween festivities) consisted of hunting down some crazy vampire sorceress in the middle of this giant crazy castle. Before we could get to her, we had to mow down two or three dozen zombies and take down a shadow monster from beyond this realm (which my character got a lucky hit off on doing 90% of it's health, sorry to the DM). A few other minor encounters (not to exclude the Vampiress' ghouls, lower level vampires) and that was pretty much it. He gave us scripts occasionally to include us in the role playing and we called it a night.

Prestigious idiots

First, I'm going to go with CoD. If you don't care, move down past it.

CoD
-I prestiged again. Which, if you don't know, means that, even though I've already gotten to the highest level (8 times), I decided to do it again. I start from level one and lose all of my weapon progress.
-Anyway, after I managed to unlock my custom classes, I ran around, somewhat to my surprise, like some kind of superhero. I lit up that battlefield like the Fourth of July. Supply drops were falling all over the place and I got like 4 turrets, yet I still haven't been able to get the final kill with one of said turrets.
-Final note on CoD is that kids are stupid and shouldn't be allowed to play games online. And what bothers me more is when people (kids) think that one broken aspect of a game is ok, but another is not.

Dinner
-The lady and I ate dinner at Cracker Barrel with a gift card I received for my birthday. It was delicious as always, but I came to a shocking realization... My mashed potatoes are better... The food was good (fried shrimp)
-Sunday night was fish night. The super awesome part was (aside from my mashed potatoes) MAHI MAHI! The fish was covered in a lemon, honey and pepper sauce towards the end of it's cooking, which set off the flavors of the fish very nicely. I'm pretty sure we could have used catfish or salmon.
-As I was spending time with a friend, the lady produced an apple cobbler of delicious proportions.

Other
-Netflix this week was Tales From the Crypt, which is always a hit. and Critters. Another movie from my favorite genre: 80s.
-Is there anyone actually reading this?

Pathfinder
-This week was another week of me DMing. During these times, I like to take the oppurtunity to look up new critters and make some subtle (or not so much) jokes, as well as adding a fair difficulty level with a neat concept.
-The fairy tale reference this week was Goldilocks. A Drow (dark elf) druid and three bears (which was a lot harder to come up with than you'd think. I had to make one of them younger and add difficulty to the other two.)
-The Travelers then traveled to a swamp town to await the arrival of the sea fairing ship. During their wait, the town was attacked by frog people. We fought them off and finished waiting for the ship.
-While on the open sea, the ship was attacked by a giant Octopus and three sea trolls. After they dispatched those foes with reasonable ease, I was sure the final encounter of a couple crab people would be no problem. We almost died. It was insane. CRAB PEOPLE.
-Finally, we entered the village to find the Tia' Dalma clone to cure us of our long standing ailments. HUZZAH!

CoD and Something Fishy

Tonight's brief story is about the CoD I played and the dinner I ate, in reverse order.

Food
-There were some nice cuts of salmon on sale at the store, so we bought them, and I requested a pasta salad as the side. If you remember one of my earlier posts, there was some agave glazed catfish action. Well, this was agave glazed salmon. I spiced up the glaze a bit. I added a healthy bit of ginger and added Worcestershire Sauce, one of my favorite toppings/seasonings/condiments. Bake for a while and delicious.
-The pasta salad had a balsamic vinaigrette reduction with garlic, orange peppers, tomatoes, and zucchini with some Parmesan and scallions. Oh, obviously pasta as well (not elbow macaroni, that crap is gross).

CoD
-I was playing domination on Storm, trying to get some FMJ kills with my Wa2000, which you should know is impossible, but I managed to get 10 in one life during that match. Got a 17 streak. It was like they were lining up for me to get them behind some surface. Not very exciting for anyone other than me, but I enjoyed it.
-a more exciting note was a riot shield note. I was playing domination. At the end of the match, my measly 6 kills had more points (due to captures) than the 27 and 28 kill players. I was rivaled only by the guy who got a nuke.

Mandatory post

I feel like this post is going to be kinda lame, but there is going to be a new category. =] But I need to make sure I post at least weekly to not fall out of the habit.

-I'll start off with CoD today.
There was one shining moment, well... One shining result after a few dull matches.
Somehow, six buddies from one clan got into one Free For All Match. Between the six of them, they were trying to Boost (If you don't know what that means, then comment and I'll explain it). The first match I played, I knew it would be rough, but I'm not a quitter, especially when there are boosters to stop.
I got wrecked.
But every match, I got a little more aware of their play-style. But in the fourth match, I placed. In the fifth, I was using the FAL with Scavenger, Stopping Power, and Steady Aim. I managed to thwart all of their boosting attempts get a few Kill Streaks and defiantly managed to get the last take-down. Game winning Cam and everything. When the round was over and we were sitting at the lobby screen, one by one, then left the room I had been fighting them in.
They got wrecked.

-Ok Food
Nothing to flip out over, but to sum up: Mashed Potatoes and a Giant steak (Nom Nom Nom). And The lady made even MORE pasta sauce. It was delicious, as always. Now, we have enough sauce to feed an army... with sauce. One note worth remarking on is Ruby Tuesday's. We ordered a fish dinner and I got a chicken tender dinner (I love chicken tenders). The lady's dinner came back under-cooked. SO... It was free! And she got a new one to take home. We each also got milkshakes! ok, that's enough use of exclamation points.

-Other
There is no other news to report, except that there is a new category. It is listed below.

-Pathfinder
Pathfinder is a role playing game. It's actually a spin-off of D&D. I'm going to start breaking down the story and events.
Previously, the three party members ( a rogue, a barbarian, and a Troll Fighter (A fighter who is a troll) Entered the town of [Esra] and met an enchanter, some people call him Tim. He sent us to this bizarre little town full of nothing and deadness, leading us to some dead-end clue about some sorcerer trying to become a Demon or something. One of the other members and I switch off running the game, and this week was mine.

I planned out a dungeon that played off of the rogues lock picking ability and the other two characters strength and acrobatics. I had them cross a bridge with a Troll underneath of it. and passed through some scary woods with creepy undead thingies. Followed up with two gargoyles at the castle entrance. Then end boss was a Medusa with 2 Animated statues as guards.
One funny note, I decided to put a mimic inside of a Gelatinous Cube. Good times are had by all blah blah blah.

Good night world